Jones wrote..
What am I missing about H2 that would be a negative in this role? Yes
many materials are hydrided by contact but in a situation of low heat
(!300 k), and using gold plating on the acceptor and a nitrided donor,
then it would seem that the hydride could be avoided. Anything else?
Howdy Jones,
Been following these series between you and Horace and from my oblique
viewpoint, I see a obvious "gap".
The gap is the "missing" empirical data that should have been accruing over
the past 30 years. It is missing because the grunt work of experimentation
and logging is non-existent. Too much money has been doled out by the Fed
for research for nonsense.
For example.... using gold plating... this data should already be available,
and not only gold.. but alloys of gold.
We simply do not know what has been missed by not having a log of data.
Look at the nonsense accumulating in research papers submitted by grad
students that mean nothing, achieve nothing except to teach the grad how to
scam and game the system.
Once was a time when private industry carried the water in research.. but
now it's keyed to Fed money .. another way of saying welfare for
universities and hospitals.
I personally would love to know where the use of gold or an alloy (
containing cobalt perhaps) would lead in this train of thought of your's and
Horace.
Richard
